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13. What characteristics of some early California feminist art are evident in Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party?

Collaboration of many women using media traditionally associated with "craftwork" like ceramics and textiles

3. What is the essence of creative thinking involved in the production of "combine-paintings" such as Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg?

Combining elements of the world to make a previously unthinkable new thing

6. Briefly describe the paint application in Pop Art works such as Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl. How does this treatment typify the Pop Art style?

Comic book pages -- bright primary colors, impersonal surfaces, characteristic printing dotsPop art commentary on a world obsessed with consumer goods and spectacles, involved with parts of culture that we hate but that affect us.

To what other form of art did Kandinsky strive to equate his work?

Comparable to sound language we experience in music

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali painted in a style, which we call Representational Surrealism. His work is filled with realistically painted dream images. His counterpart, Surrealist Joan Miro approached painting differently. What is the name of Miro's method? Briefly explain what it means and why he used it.

Like Dali, Magritte used a similar approach to painting, but his content was different. Instead of being repetitive, he used an approach known as displacement, which adds a jolt to his work.

In his breakthrough painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso created a new vocabulary of form that overturned some of the important traditions of Western art, which include Renaissance perspective and academic figure drawing. Briefly explain.

Picasso overturned the traditional notions of form and expression in art. He created a new vocabulary of expression that is both Renaissance and academic.

How does Duchamp's Nude Descending a staircase evoke an overall feeling of motion?

Sequential, diagonally placed, abstract references to figure present movement of body through space seen @ once w rhythmic progression, sense of gravity.

9. In conceptual art, what takes the place of the art object?

The idea

9. Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Space is not a naturalistic rendering of a bird. What is actually embodied in the work?

The implied soaring motion of a bird, the embodiment of flight

Working together, Picasso and Braque invented Analytical Cubism, arguably the most important aesthetic advancement since the development of linear perspective. With Analytical Cubism, these artists analyzed their subjects from various angles, then painted abstract, geometric references to these views. Briefly explain how Cubism differs, fundamentally, from linear perspective.

The traditional role of figure drawing was also utilized by Western artists. They painted figures in the Greek Classical style. However, due to the non-naturalistic power and beauty of African sculptures, Picasso broke with the traditional role of painting figures.

10. What quality does Futurist art express that Cubist art doesn't? What was the inspiration for this quality?

They add a sense of speed and motion and celebration of a machine to express speed of modern life, dynamic energy of new 20th cent.

4. How do common signs play a dual role in the work of Jasper Johns?

They represent familiar objects to bring art back to everyday life

Why did the Dadaists reject all accepted moral, social, political, and aesthetic values

They thought it pointless to try to find order and meaning in a world in which so-called rational behavior had produced only chaos and destruction. They aimed to shock viewers into seeing the absurdity of the Western world's social and political situation.

2. What are the two main types of painting in The New York School? Name a representative artist from each and briefly explain the key differences in their approach.

a. Action painting: rhythmical, movement (ex: Jackson Pollock) b. Color field paining: large areas of color with no central focus (Ex: Mark Rothko)

How did Cubism differ fundamentally from Fauvism? a. Cubism of Picasso: b. Fauvism of Matisse:

a. Cubism of Picasso: They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted. b. Fauvism of Matisse: is a way of painting which is very expressive, and uses non-realistic color schemes to depict natural scenes.

American Regionalism, as seen in works by artists such as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton, developed in an atmosphere of relative cultural isolation. How did these artists find their identity?

artists were motivated by the political upheaval and the rise of the middle class, which helped them find their personal identity.

7. In contrast to an Abstract Expressionist painting, why do you think Warhol chose the medium of photo-screenprinting to execute many of his images?

faster The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine.

Between the world wars, an artistic style called social realism became common in many countries. In fact, in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, it became the official statesponsored norm. How did social realists feel about modern art?

many artists focused on social and political issues. Their style, known as Social Realism, was a retreat from the radical changes of modern art.

10. Why was Joseph Kosuth angered at Pop Art?

pop art's embrace o commercialism and the materialism of the art market

12. Running Fence, created in Sonoma County, California in 1976 by Site-Specific artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, was not presented as a traditional art object, such as a painting or sculpture. What was the primary focus of this art project?

the fence embodied larger issues of human freedom and constraint.

In his painting Nighthawks, how does Hopper's use of light differ from that of Monet, the Impressionist?

was interested in the mood of people. His carefully organized composition and the use of light and shadows create a haunting effect.

What did Kandinsky say was the content of his paintings?

what the spectator lives or feels while under effect of form and color combos of the picture

In the mid 1920s, a group of writers and painters, called the Surrealists, rejected the Modern emphasis on science and rationality. What did they embrace instead? Briefly explain.

which explored the power of the subconscious mind. It was widely interpreted as the first step toward a more balanced consciousness. In response, a new movement called Surrealism was established.

5. Among Pop artist Andy Warhol's most common subjects were consumer products such as Coca-Cola and Campbell's soup, and celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe. Briefly explain why he chose these subjects. What is his work telling us?

A celebrity is a packaged commodity; it called attention to pervasive commercial environment.

Fauvism is an expressive style. What is Expressionism?

Art that emphasizes inner feeling/ emotions over objective description.

11. Many artists, including Christo, Walter De Maria, and Robert Smithson have gone beyond the traditional concepts of indoor painting and sculpture. In site-specific works, what determines the composition and content of each piece? Briefly explain.

As a site-specific work of art is designed for a specific location, if removed from that location it loses all or a substantial part of its meaning

In 1912, Picasso and Braque modified Analytical Cubism to create a style called Synthetic Cubism, which became the basis for collage. Briefly explain the difference between these two processes.

Braque tended to show objects exploding out or pulled apart into fragments, while Picasso rendered them magnetized, with attracting forces compelling elements of the pictorial space into the center of the composition.

Marcel Duchamp was the most radical of the DADA artists. He is best known for presenting mass-produced objects as artworks, calling them ready-made. He even went so far as to draw a mustache and beard on the face of the Mona Lisa. Briefly explain why he did this and what it tells us about DADA art.

By showing outrageous irreverence toward a deeply treasured painting, Duchamp tried to shake people out of their unthinking acceptance of dominant values. Duchamp is best known for presenting mass-produced objects as artworks, calling them readymades. As you watch this video, examine and note why Duchamp created readymades, such as The Fountain.

1. During the mid-twentieth century, artists of the New York School (Pollock, Rothko, deKooning) began to rethink the relationship between art and life, which led them to explore painting styles other than the representational and narrative. What important factor motivated them to do this?

Emigres, crisis of world war, dislocations

Picasso's Guernica stems from a specific incident. What is its real statement?

Guernica is Picasso's most powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during Spanish Civil War.

How was the Fauvism of Matisse one of the most influential developments in early twentieth century painting?

He expanded on post impressionism. He led painters who used vigorous brushwork and large flat areas of expressive color. Powerful use of color.

8. According to Minimalist Donald Judd, "it isn't necessary for a work of art to have a lot of things to look at." What does Judd feel is most interesting in an artwork?

Its quality as a whole

How did Magritte create an unsettling impact in his painting?

Joan Mir emphasized color and design in her work. Instead of focusing on storytelling content, she used the idea of chance to probe the unconscious.

Influenced by the clean lines of the De Stijl movement, International Style architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe invented a new architecture for the Modern age. The interiors of their buildings are filled with abundant light and flexible space. What type of construction methods makes this possible?

Mondrian painted with a basic structure in mind: straight lines, rectangular shapes, and primary colors. He avoided placing pure hues on one side of his work and separating them by black lines.

Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, founder of the De Stijl movement, worked to free painting from the depiction of real objects and the expression of personal feelings. His style was based on the expressive relationships of simple visual elements, such as straight lines, primary colors, and rectangular shapes. Briefly explain his goals and reasoning for doing this.

Mondrian saw nature as rational and orderly. He wanted to create a new aesthetic that would mirror the qualities of nature.

The great Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Siquieros, and Jose Clemente Orozco created numerous large fresco paintings on walls in Mexico and the United States that embodied the ideals of the Mexican revolution of 1910-17, when a popular uprising overthrew a longentrenched dictatorship. What is being celebrated and glorified in their work?

Mural paintings in Mexico were inspired by the ideas of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. They depicted the country's traditional values and culture.

What fields were strongly influenced by the De Stijl movement?

The De Stijl movement was a group of artists that created a new style of design that was influential on the modern world. From furniture to graphic design, all of these elements were influenced by the movement.